Berger, Clarke Spin for Kerry on Iraq

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/19/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke are set to hit the spin cycle this weekend on behalf of Sen. John Kerry.

As the Bush White House commemorates the first anniversary of the Iraq war, the two former Clinton officials are coming out of the woodwork to trash Operation Iraqi Freedom as an unnecessary distraction to the war on terror.

"How we conducted the war in Iraq - hurried, alone, unprepared for the day after - has made the terrorism problem more difficult," Berger told a Kerry campaign briefing on Friday.

Clarke, who recently proclaimed that "fighting Iraq had little to do with fighting the war on terrorism, until we made it (so)," is set to appear on "60 Minutes" this Sunday.

He's expected to address charges that the Clinton administration failed to act when the CIA pinpointed Osama bin Laden's location on several occasions before the 9/11 attacks.

Democratic spinmeister Paul Begala, who announced Clarke's "60 Minutes" spot during a radio interview Friday morning, signaled the public relations blitzkrieg on terrorism, daring Republicans:

"Ask the nonpartisan national security experts who worked in both administrations, who was tougher on bin Laden, who was aware of the problem, who was going after bin Laden."

In further evidence that the Clinton and Kerry teams were joining forces on foreign policy, Norway's Socialist leadership met with Sen. Hillary Clinton and other members of her political team in what the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten described as a bid to "link up with the Democrats in the US.

"The goal is to be prepared with common strategies if a majority of them on both sides of the Atlantic come back to power," the paper explained.

Espen Barth Eide, who led the Norwegian delegation in Washington, D.C., said she hoped the meeting would help bring about "political globalization."

[Dark Wing]

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[My2Cents]

[Leroy S. Mort]

Richard Clarke's Legacy of Miscalculation

an excerpt:

"In 1998, according to the New Republic, Clarke "played a key role in the Clinton administration's misguided retaliation for the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which targeted bin Laden's terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan." The pharmaceutical factory was, apparently, just a pharmaceutical factory, and we now know how impressed bin Laden was by cruise missiles that miss."

Clarke's just another bitter ex-Clintonite.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"The goal is to be prepared with common strategies if a majority of them on both sides of the Atlantic come back to power," the paper explained."

Ding Ding Ding ALARM BELL Ding Ding Ding

[My2Cents]

"Ask the nonpartisan national security experts who worked in both administrations, who was tougher on bin Laden, who was aware of the problem, who was going after bin Laden."

These people are cracked; either that, or just plain evil. Clinton did squat. There have even been whole books written about his malfeasance. The only hope for the Democrats is to lie, often and loudly, in hopes that enough unwashed and uninformed within the electorate will be lulled into a stupor deep enough to vote for their pathetic and incompetent party.

[eureka!]

Liars, approaching evil. Desperate for power again. And with their legacy to boot. Simply amazing....

[daybreakcoming]

Idiots don't want to acknowledge that we are fighting AQ in Iraq, not in your backyard or mine.
Will Berger be asked about the statement he made in 1998?
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983"
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, 02/18/98

[DestroytheDemocrats]

Clarke painting himself as a genius and Rumsfeld as a moron just does not have a ring of truth does it? I don't believe one word of it. Lies, BS and exaggerations. But dammit now we have to listen to this self-serving garbage being fobbed off as fact being dissected by the media for the next two weeks. Rumsfeld and all those being trashed really ought to clobber these guys. Trouble is they probably won't and I don't understand why they take this crap like they do.

[lelio]

Clarke's just another bitter ex-Clintonite.

What other administrations did Clarke work for?

[areafiftyone]

I really wonder how much Kerry and his team has to do with the election in Spain too. This is very alarming!

[Just mythoughts]

"I really wonder how much Kerry and his team has to do with the election in Spain too."


I wonder the same, however, it's probably more of a clintons thing, working together "hidden". clintons had their team running all over the world selling their wares as campaign advisors.

[areafiftyone]

The Clintons have very close ties with Europe - all the leaders love the Clintons because of their bootlicking. This is very bad when Americans can influence European votes and Europeans can influence American votes. I truly believe this is the case with the European election and I think we are going to see more of this in the future.

[mewzilla]

Anyone who wants to read up on Clarke should get Richard Miniter's book Losing bin Laden. You'd come away with some interesting questions for Clarke. Which I really, really doubt he's gonna be asked.

[Just mythoughts]

"I truly believe this is the case with the European election and I think we are going to see more of this in the future."


I totally agree. Canada included!

[areafiftyone]

He definitly won't be asked any questions now because he is not running for office anymore. The General public doesn't care about Clark anymore. They are more interested in Kerry. We need to get alot of the info that Free Republic has in the Kerry archive to the mainstream press. Alot of the info was just in NewsMax which the general public does not read.

[Trust but Verify]

Wrong Clark. This is Richard Clarke.

[areafiftyone]

Ooops. I'm not awake yet! Need more coffee. Thanks.

[mewzilla]

And for more of the Iraq-Al Qaeda connection, read Appendix A in Miniter's book. Clarke has some 'splainin' to do...

[Howlin]

"Ask the nonpartisan national security experts who worked in both administrations, who was tougher on bin Laden, who was aware of the problem, who was going after bin Laden."

Now who was it that had bin Laden in their sights in REAL TIME and did nothing about it?